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Sept. 18, 2006 If war, any war –especially the presently rebranded resurgent insurgency were a trivia [“And now can you, for the $50,000 prize tell us …. how many Taliban, resurgent Taliban that were creamed today? A. 500,000, B. 90,000, C. 1 million, D All of the above ], the continuous rephrase would be ………..you got it! You got it! You win a fink a!!! By now am more than used to accusations of being a terrorist and many other English words that are certainly not reader friendly especially by one of my very cosy homeys Carl, say hi Carl [ Carl is usually on auto pilot- buff]. Well its all about NATO folks, NATO has sat down for so long twiddling their thumbs and finally decided that the current state and nature of irrelevancy had to be shrugged off after all everybody was fighting so “why not”, and since the foe were no more than a few highly unmotivated camel jocks, “well they’re all the same aren’t…..” [Excerpt from Conventional Western F*** U* Manual, paper edition…....] and so NATO decided to send in a few troops. Several [ Canadian]body bags later and the yokels in the Pentagon and Brussels are turning all shades of ‘beetle juice’ calling for 2000 more troops in order to ‘destroy’ these minor irritants before the onset of winter when these irritants would scamper and find refuge in the mountains and resurge again year next like lemmings on the suicide trail.. I have been transfixed in a minor way by Afghanistan since the 1980’s as a country where a people called the Afghans lived but where also there were a large number of others too called Soviets and these Soviets were soldiers. These Soviet soldiers were not sharing the latest then in military technology or camaraderie but trying very very hard to kill very hard a group of ‘camel jocks’ called the mujaheedeen who, were at odd times helped out in military technology support …..Stingers and the wares, and camaraderie by the USA in the guise of the CIA [though the wisdom of CIA camaraderie will certainly be an issue for very hot debate, remember this]. The Soviets I recall, ultimately found the situation so untenable that they had to move out – it was a Soviet Vietnam. That was then and this is now though the hard learned lesson s do not seem to have been learned at for the Soviets not transformed into the Russians did not stop at kick camel jock in the b*** ball game. That was the Cold War. Is the stupid war? If my history serves me right the British in the heady days of Empire ate dust and bullets courtesy of the ‘wily Pathan’ and eventually left and unfortunately the US in a blind fervour to get 'tall and skinny' got sucked in only to stick one leg in and without finishing the job struck on another quest at the real ‘camel jocks’ who were just as bad as the Afghan horse camel jocks. It was in the present quagmire that NATO came in a huff convinced that the superiority of this pot pouri military machine would certainly crush this insignificant insect called Taliban after all hadn’t NATO colours been gloriously and regimentally flown in the Bosnian theatre? These were just a herd of tribal peckerwoods – a minor irritant that the combined power of European and American war machinery would juggernaut with a few hundred highly trained, better fed and highly motivated superior troops. It was same the Russkies probably thought, said and believed before like some macabre Hitchhockian they were drawn until there no more less than 300,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan, bogged down for 10 good years by ‘camel jocks’. It is all part of a misperception, mythologized painfully and at a consequence by the West the rumour about introducing democracy –Western style and secondly that they know what the Afghan people want. It may be part of a larger aspect of a diseased Empire /Imperialist mentality which work[s]ed on domicile[d] native, black skinned and primitive Africans who at the wave of a thought are ready and willing to forgive a slight or grievous injury, but to any one conversant with the ill manner and unforgiving spirit of the camel, one would deduce the comportment of that two legged wily creature astride the camel-the irrepressible ‘camel jock’. They do have a long memory of a short slight. National past-times vary in content and variety but no matter or no matter where nations love their past times; for the Americans it is baseball, beer and being loud, the British love soccer and their porkpie, the Germans their sauer kraut, the French their wine and so and so forth. The Afghans are said to love their fighting. FIGHTING…..yes, that is what I said, last time I remember and to think that people who love fighting would just lie down, for God and the Queen or for the Star Spangled canvas, and play possum……they didn’t for Hammer and Sickle which definitely had more clout and now they would for NATO? President Musharaf of Pakistan is one smart dude – he negotiated with the horse camel jocks and he is being criticized roundly for it, but what has the policy of precision bombs and drones achieved ? The Russians used that and even resorted to poisoning wells to undermine the resilience of these camel jocks –heck you think they do not shop online for military hardware too? Camel jocks do carry PDA’s and or whatever your latest version Blackberry may come. We never seem to learn – maybe we learn though hardly enough because if we did maybe the world would have actually changed in the actual sense not from just one perspective – usually the one looking through the bomb sights. ------------ Email Stephen Lonewolf Makama: lonewolfmak@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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